"To get rich is glorious." -- Deng Xiaoping. This is perhaps the smartest thing ever uttered by a member of the Communist Party.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Ciudad Juarez

With all of the headlines (and this great photo collection) about Mexico's drug war I thought this might be an appropriate time to share a video clip I filmed almost two weeks ago of Ciudad Juarez -- the epicenter of the violence -- as seen from Interstate 10 in El Paso, TX:

It has to be one of the sharper contrasts between the first and third worlds you are likely to find.